🎮9/8 KAKUREONI: Evolved Since CBT2! Playing the New Version with Special Guests
Hello everyone, this is the KAKUREONI: Hide and Seek Horror development team! Starting at 8:30 PM (JST) on September 8, we’ll be joined by our special guests, RainyDollGames and Ponmichu-sensei, to play the newly revamped KAKUREONI together! Both of them have played KAKUREONI with us before in CBT2, so we’re excited to hear what they think about how much the game has evolved since then! ✨ 📺 St…
Hello everyone, this is the KAKUREONI: Hide and Seek Horror development team! We’re inviting two special guests to play the latest version of the game in a special collaborative livestream! In this livestream, we’ll be joined by うまれたてのぷるさん（Umaretateno Puru） and ジークレストユリアさん（Shikuresuto Yuria） as they take on the newly revamped 「KAKUREONI:Hide-and-seek Horror」 together with our development team.…
Hello everyone, this is the KAKUREONI development team. We're excited to announce that we'll be exhibiting at "Tokyo Game Dungeon 13" , taking place on Saturday, August 8th, 2026! 📅 Event Info Date: Saturday, August 8th, 2026 Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center, Hamamatsucho Debuting the New DEMO with Major Renewal Updates We're currently working on a major game design update for…
Hello everyone, this is the KAKUREONI: Hide and Seek Horror development team! We're excited to unveil our brand-new DEMO , featuring our latest major gameplay update, for the very first time on the game development VTuber channel " Pixelade!" For this special livestream, we'll be joined by our special guest, Kukurogi Hyum , as we dive into the newly revamped KAKUREONI together. Along the way, w…
July Director's Message Since we first revealed KAKUREONI at Tokyo Game Show 2025, so many of you have taken the time to play the game and share your thoughts with us. We have received more feedback than we could have imagined, and for that, we would like to express our heartfelt thanks. Looking Toward the Demo Our next major milestone is the Demo version, and development is now moving forward…
First of all, The ‘KAKUREONI’ CBT2 came to an end on 22 June! Thank you so much to everyone who took part!! However, we’ll be continuing with playtesting for development and collaborations with streamers! Today, we’re delighted to welcome as guests Akabane Minei , a detective who specialises in investigating indie and horror games, and Kanuma Saaya from Fenrir, who loves games and handmade craf…
The Second Closed Beta Test (CBT2), which began on Monday 15 June, has finally reached its final day today! It’s been a week that felt both long and short, but thanks to the collaborative stream on the Pixelade! channel, as well as the many streamers who broadcast their gameplay, we’ve had far more participants than the development team could have imagined! 🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who t…
On the Pixelade! YouTube channel, we’re streaming daily test play sessions throughout the ‘KAKUREONI’ CBT period! 📽️ Today, on day 7, We’re delighted to welcome Amaguri Suguri as our guest—he also took part in the first CBT back in February! It seems he’s already played the game several times since CBT2 began, so it looks like the development team are in for a real challenge…!! The stream star…
On the Pixelade! YouTube channel, we’re streaming daily test play sessions throughout the ‘KAKUREONI’ CBT period! 📽️ Today, on day 6, From a world where steam engines have advanced Frappe・V・Stemtria as our guest! He says he’s not keen on horror, but will he really be scared by ‘KAKUREONI’……?? The stream starts at 8 pm on Saturday 20 June! *The stream will be archived, so please do watch it eve…
On the Pixelade! YouTube channel, we’re streaming daily test play sessions throughout the ‘KAKUREONI’ CBT period! 📽️ Today, on day 5, We’re welcoming CateaNap Cafe staff member Nabatame Yuu as our guest! He usually streams indie and horror games, but I wonder how he’ll react to ‘KAKUREONI’ ……?? The stream starts at 8 pm on Friday 19 June! *The stream will be archived, so please do watch it eve…
On the Pixelade! YouTube channel, we’re streaming daily test play sessions throughout the ‘KAKUREONI’ CBT period! 📽️ Today, on day 4, we’re welcoming Rainy Doll —a game developer and VTuber, just like Pixelade! and Ponmichu-sensei , who frequently streams horror games, as our guests. 👹 The stream starts at 8 pm on Thursday 18 June! *The stream will be archived, so please do watch it even if y…
The development team behind KAKUREONI: Hide-and-Seek Horror — ぴくせれ〜ど! — is streaming live every night during CBT2! 🎉 Tune in to watch the devs play through the latest build in real time, share their thoughts, and put the game to the test. Some streams are viewer participation style, so feel free to jump in and play along 👻 Whether you're already in CBT2 or just curious about the game, come ha…
Closed Beta Test 2 (CBT2) for KAKUREONI has officially started! 🎉 On the very first day, we hosted a viewer participation stream where our community jumped in and tried out the latest build together 👹 Missed it? No worries — the full archive is available now 📺 ▼ Watch the stream archive here And the fun doesn't stop there — we'll be streaming every day from here on out! Play CBT2 for yoursel…
Thank you to everyone who participated in our first Closed Beta Test! Thanks to the incredible amount of feedback we received, the development team has been hard at work, and KAKUREONI has evolved so much that it almost feels like a completely different game. Now, we're excited to announce the return of the Closed Beta Test! Closed Beta Test #2 is officially coming! 🎉 📅 Event Details · Applic…
Hello everyone, this is the KAKUREONI development team. In our previous update, we talked about the character design of the children. This time, we'd like to discuss a topic that may seem less flashy, but is actually one of the most important aspects of game development. And that topic is... the tutorial Nobody Likes Tutorials That might sound a little extreme, but if we're being honest as play…
Hello everyone, this is the KAKUREONI development team. In our previous update, we talked about the importance of the Oni as one of the core elements that define KAKUREONI. As a follow-up to our previous update, “ Why did we choose this particular design for the children?” That's what we'd like to talk about today!✨ Games Are About “the Experience” There’s a phrase we come back to again and aga…
Hello! This is the KAKUREONI dev team. Today, we’d like to talk about another feature from our roadmap that has been progressing in development. This time, we’ll be focusing on: Task: The Oni Update The core concept behind KAKUREONI is “awe and fear.” During the first CBT, the Oni was designed with a silhouette closer to that of a giant human figure. (Of course, visual quality improvements were…
Hello! This is the KAKUREONI dev team. Today, we’d like to talk about another feature from our roadmap that has been progressing in development. This time, we’ll be focusing on: Task: Ghost Update 👻 The Problem We Found During the CBT: “Ghosts Are Too Strong” In KAKUREONI, alongside the Oni that hunts down the children, there are also spirits (ghosts) that wander throughout the map and assist…
Hello! This is the KAKUREONI dev team. Today, we’d like to take a closer look at one of the features from our previous roadmap that’s currently in development: “Task #4: Oni Draw” "KAKUREONI" Is More Than Just a “Scary Oni Tag” Game "KAKUREONI" is a game about playing a deadly serious game of Oni tag in a terrifying otherworld. But what we want to create isn’t just a horror game. At the heart o…
Hey everyone! This is the dev team ✨ Today, we’re excited to share our upcoming development roadmap for "KAKUREONI" ! Today, we’re excited to share our upcoming development roadmap for "KAKUREONI" ! First of all, thank you so much for all the feedback from our playtests and Closed Beta. We went through everything and had a lot of discussions as a team. Of course, we’ll continue improving contro…
Today, December 25th, around 8:00 PM (JST) , Kakure Oni will be featured on Dengeki Game Live! They will be introducing the latest development status of the game. ■ Developers as Vtuber!? What is “Pixelade！”? 🎮Pixelade！ Pixelade is a unique game development unit where the developers themselves become VTubers, sharing behind the scenes content and development progress on YouTube. ※From left to…
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